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Preface
Intended Audience
This manual is written for anyone wishing to understand the concepts and re-
quirements of logical partitions for a Compaq AlphaServer GS60E or GS140
system, as well as how to use the console firmware to define them.
Document Structure
This manual uses a structured documentation design. Topics are organized into
small sections for efficient online and printed reference. Each topic begins with
an abstract. You can quickly gain a comprehensive overview by reading only
the abstracts. Next is an illustration or example, which also provides quick ref-
erence. Last in the structure are descriptive text and syntax definitions.
This manual has five chapters, as follows:
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Chapter 1, Introduction, gives an overview of logical partitions.
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Chapter 2, Configuration Rules, describes the hardware you need to run
logical partitions.
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Chapter 3, Environment Variable Settings, describes the environment
variables used to define logical partitions for an operating system.
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Chapter 4, Setting Up, Initializing, and Booting Logical Partitions,
describes the sequence of console firmware commands you need to use to
enable logical partitioning and boot/install the operating system.
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Chapter 5, Tips and Troubleshooting, gives pointers on how to perform
common operations, correct problems, and run tools to debug a partition.
System Options
The Systems and Options Catalog describes all options for AlphaServer GS60E
and GS140 systems. In addition, Compaq maintains a list of the latest sup-
ported options on the Internet, which you can access as follows:
Using a Web browser, follow links from the URL:
http://www.compaq.com/alphaserver/